PREFACE [9] 



I wish also to express my best thanks to Mr. 

 John Murray for many suggestions and revisions, 

 and for the interest he has taken in the work. 



It only remains for me to acknowledge my 

 indebtedness to Lady White Cooper, Sir William 

 Flower, Professor Jeffrey Bell, Dr. Pearson Lang- 

 shaw, and others, for valuable information which 

 has done much to enhance the interest of the bio- 

 graphy, and to Dr. Henry Woodward and the 

 Rev. H. N. Hutchinson for the illustrations of 

 some extinct animals, the reconstruction of which 

 occupied so large a part of Professor Owens life. 



RICHARD OWEN. 



Sheen Lodge, Richmond Park : 

 October 1894. 



